United States v. Theodore Reed Campbell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a district court may depart below the minimum sentence set by Congress only to reflect substantial assistance by the defendant”
• holding that a sen- tencing court may depart from a statutory minimum sentence \only to reflect substantial assistance\ by the defendant
• holding court lacks power to depart from a statutory minimum sentence for any reason other than that identified by statute, which is expressly limited by 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e) to reductions based on a defendant’s substantial assistance
• “When a sentence is fixed by statute, any exception to the statutory directive must also be given by statute.”

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